ISS space junk crashed through a man’s house in Florida

In March of 2021, NASA ground controllers released a cargo pallet of aging nickel hydride batteries from the ISS, the space agency shared in a post this week. The 5,800-pound pallet was expected to burn up completely upon re-entry. However, in March of 2024, when the pallet made its way through the atmosphere once more, not everything burned up, and some of that ISS space junk actually crashed into someone’s home.

NASA says that a piece of the 5,800 pounds of hardware survived the re-entry burn and crashed through the roof of a Florida man’s home on March 8, 2024. At first,…